Why do ONLY 9% of people complete their New Year’s Resolution? What keeps 91% of people from improving their lives and experiencing the joy of accomplishment? Today, John Heinen and Sam Guzman answer these questions and discuss why resolutions and improving self-discipline are great pursuits for the man striving to live better. In this conversation, we list out 4 necessary marks that make resolutions more successful and explain why without them you increase the odds of failure. These steps are not difficult but often allude the honest man who just wants to get better. Not only do we lay out the necessary marks but we show you how to apply them to your goals, whenever you are making them, now or frequently throughout the year.

The Christmas season is a time for Catholics to celebrate, and our celebrations are longer, better, and more meaningful than the rest of the world. Today, John Heinen and Devin Schadt discuss the richness of Christmas traditions and how they improve everyone's lives. Find out why Christmas is celebrated on December 25th, the meaning of the term Xmas, and why we have multiple feast days we are told to enjoy within Christmastide. We also discuss the depths of historical Protestants' revolt against Christmas and the secular attempt to rid it of its meaning. Join the conversation on how amazing this season is and how only those who are truly celebrating are following the Church's commands.

Of all the tremendous mysteries of our faith, there is none more stupefying in its reality than the Incarnation. That God would deign to assume human flesh is a staggering fact, and it is one that a thousand different heresies has sought to doubt or deny. And yet, it is a fast so critical to […]

I am the father of three children four and under. It is always startling to me, though it shouldn’t be at this stage, how quickly things can spin out of control. A perfectly clean house that took a great deal of effort to tidy up can nearly instantly be destroyed by our children with hardly […]

Lent is here, and quite frequently the weather suits the sombre tone of the season. Ashen gray skies and the bare reaching arms of trees create an atmosphere that is at once stark and solemn. Yet this season is not entirely bleak or without hope. Warmer days replete with sunshine break up the gloom, and […]

I am happily writing this blog in a coffee shop in snowy Boulder, Colorado while my family hangs out and is slowly winding down their evening. This is the second year in a row that I am able to be home for Christmas and I am all too aware of how fortunate I am to […]

The post is part of the ongoing #FultonFridays series. From the earliest days, the Church asked its faithful to recite the one hundred and fifty Psalms of David. This custom still prevails among priests, who recite some of these Psalms every day. But it was not easy for anyone to memorize the one hundred and […]

The perfection of all virtues and gifts of God is beatitude. In other words, the more perfect virtue and use of the gifts of God are, the more perfect is one’s happiness. And there is no greater happiness than to see God. That is why it is called the beatific vision and is the final […]